{"id":89152,"date":"2024-06-04T10:39:50","date_gmt":"2024-06-04T10:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/?p=89152"},"modified":"2024-12-16T09:02:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-16T09:02:46","slug":"bouchra-khalili-lanternists-and-typographers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/exhibitions-en\/bouchra-khalili-lanternists-and-typographers","title":{"rendered":"BOUCHRA KHALILI. LANTERNISTS AND TYPOGRAPHERS"},"content":{"rendered":"

Exhibitions cycle: WHAT IF WOMEN RULED THE WORLD? Part 4<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lanternists and Typographers<\/em> is Bouchra Khalili\u2019s first solo exhibition in Greece. The exhibition includes three works: The Magic Lantern Project <\/em>(2019\u20132022), The Typographer<\/em> (2019), and The Radical Ally<\/em> (2019). Through a deeply researched and meticulous practice that encompasses moving image, printmaking, installation, textile, photography, and editorial platforms, Khalili uses complex strategies of storytelling and self-reflexive visual and sonic forms for exploring notions of agency and self-representation of members of communities rendered invisible by the nation-state model. Her multi-layered works weave together personal and collective histories and memories for suggesting hypotheses of emancipatory notions of community.<\/p>\n

The Magic Lantern <\/em>(mixed media installation: film, objects, textile, silkscreen prints, 2019\u20132022) reactivates the art of the phantasmagoria, a technology of the late 18th century that combined projected imagery with performances of storytelling in order to summon ghosts \u201cto speak in public\u201d. Khalili\u2019s installation takes as a starting point The Nero of Amman<\/em>, the lost first video work by Swiss feminist video pioneer Carole Roussopoulos (1945\u20132009). The film disappeared due to the numerous projections that erased it, as at the time, a master tape would have served for both filming and broadcasting.<\/p>\n

Carole Roussopoulos has appeared in previous works by Khalili such as Foreign Office<\/em> (2015) and Twenty-Two Hours<\/em> (2018), two pieces that investigate the position of the artist not as someone speaking on behalf or in lieu<\/em> of someone else, but rather with the artist as witness. With its multiple components, The Magic Lantern <\/em>poetically meditates on a potential \u201cspectrology\u201d, summoning the ghosts of history to \u201cspeak in public\u201d in the present-time and from or for the future.<\/p>\n

The Typographer<\/em> (a 16mm silent film) references Jean Genet\u2019s training in typography. Khalili\u2019s film depicts a female typographer, typesetting and printing the last sentence Genet wrote during his lifetime, which forms the epigraph of his posthumous epic poem, Prisoner of Love<\/em>: \u201cPut all the images in language in a place of safety and make use of them, for they are in the desert, and it\u2019s in the desert we must go and look for them.\u201d The Radical Ally<\/em> was produced after the making of Twenty-Two Hours<\/em>, a film by Khalili examining Genet\u2019s commitment to the campaign for the liberation of Bobby Seale, chairman of the Black Panther Party, who was arbitrarily detained in 1970.<\/p>\n

The exhibition is funded by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan \u201cGreece 2.0\u201d, funded by the European Union \u2013 NextGenerationEU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Exhibitions cycle: WHAT IF WOMEN RULED THE WORLD? Part 4 Lanternists and Typographers is Bouchra Khalili\u2019s first solo exhibition in Greece. The exhibition includes three works: The Magic Lantern Project (2019\u20132022), The Typographer (2019), and The Radical Ally (2019). Through a deeply researched and meticulous practice that encompasses moving image, printmaking, installation, textile, photography, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":89262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-exhibition-post.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[195,35,34],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89152"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90368,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89152\/revisions\/90368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}